Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 3
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Thinking about the veil
[Read the article: Revisiting the veil]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to agree with No Name Given. Although our society is not perfect, I am quite happy that I was not born in any number of Muslim countries where women are so low on the totem poll that people cut off their genitals.
My problem with the veil is not that women wear it but that men do not. It is one's status as a woman that determines the wearing of a particular garment. The veil is also problematic becuase of who is allowed to see a woman without it. The men in a woman's family have a particular claim over her body since they, and no other men, are allowed to see her hair and/or face.
I'm sure someone will argue that we wear clothes in public but covering one's hair and/or face is not quite the same thing as covering breasts and genitals.
At some point in school I had to read a book on this topic called Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? The author Susan Moller Okin says that it's not but the book includes 15 other responses. It is worth a read.
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Telling Parents
[Read the article: A case for parental notification]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even now,as a 30-year-old single woman, I can not imagine telling my parents that I got pregnant by accident. No, they wouldn't beat me or throw me out of the house. I just wouldn't want to deal with their reaction--whatever that might be. Thank goodness I'm an adult and don't don't have to tell them. It's hard to imagine what would have happened if I got pregant as a teenager.
There's a fairly decent article on this topic at PalmBeachPost.com called "Teenage abortion waivers not rare."